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Read more about the article Fun on the beach: a gallery of vintage seaside photos

Fun on the beach: a gallery of vintage seaside photos

Most collections of amateur vintage photographs and negatives that come my way have beach pictures among them. People love the beach, and they love taking photos at the beach. The quality of the photos, I admit, is not always fantastic, but there's a nostalgic charm about these seaside pictures that draws me in. Here is a few examples from my collection - and some kindly loaned by other people too. Newcastle Beach, circa 1904. You could bathe without togs, if you were young enough, but the hat was harder to do without. Newcastle's Merewether Beach, circa…

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Read more about the article Kodak’s “autographic” vest pocket camera: a hit with Great War soldiers

Kodak’s “autographic” vest pocket camera: a hit with Great War soldiers

From time to time, in my search for interesting old photos and negatives, I used to find negatives with writing on one edge that, when scanned, looked like this: Hospital ship, Egypt. Taken in 1919 by a returning Australia soldier aboard the transport ship Plassy, using a Kodak autographic vest pocket camera. . I wondered about them, until one day I bought an odd little old camera that had a strange opening flap on the back cover, and a cute little pointed stylus. This was, I discovered, an "autographic" camera. The principle was that you could…

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Read more about the article Stories from old postcards. Part 2

Stories from old postcards. Part 2

Back in the early years of the 20th Century, in the golden age of postcards, untold thousands of cards criss-crossed the world, carrying necessarily brief greetings between friends and loved ones. They were cheap to send, easily available, and keenly collected - especially by youngsters. Today these old cards still hold some fascination. Sometimes they are interesting because of the illustrations on the front, other times for the inscriptions on the back, and sometimes for both. ______________________________________________________________________________ This card is a "real photo" card, produced by Charleston Studios in Newcastle. Real photo cards are simply photographic…

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